On Mon, October 17, 2011 14:01, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I am attempting to load CentOS-6 onto a ST31000524AS 1Tb
> SATA drive in a Supermicro 5015A-EHF-D525 system. The
> BIOS sees the drive and the CentOS install process sees
> and initializes it as well.
>
> However, even when I accept the default partitioning, I
> get an error during the drive formatting prior to
> installing the OS. The error message is: "Could not
> commit to disk /dev/sda". I get this error whether the
> drive is configured as IDE or AHCI in BIOS.
On Mon Oct 17 14:12:26 EDT 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Have you tried putting the drive in another system
> and see if it's recognized correctly?
I have and the drive in question is formatted and CentOS-6
is successfully installed using the same media if I employ
a different system to do the work.
> Also, if you put the old drive back, does it work?
Yes, I can boot the Supermicro system from a previously
formatted 500Gb disc that already has CentOS-6 installed
on it. Further, if I install the 1Tb disk, now formatted
and with CentOS installed courtesy of the other host, then
the Supermicro system also boots from it.
> What I'm looking for is whether you have a hardware
> problem, either m/b or drive... or controller card.
It does not appear to me to be hardware related, at least
not directly. I suspect a bug in Anaconda. There are
reports of a similar issue in Fedora last year and the bug
was supposed to have been fixed in June of 2010, if indeed
my problem is the same thing or something related.
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